Infinite Mana in the Apocalypse

tact with the monolith and were able to defeat the origins of the beings in it, essence of the monolith would be used up and the release would be delayed.

The enemy that sent these dungeons down would then have to keep providing essence towards these dungeons to replenish the origin of the beings in it. This process repeated back and forth in the months that followed the advent of the apocalypse

Hunters would repeatedly enter dungeons and clear them, using up more and more essence and taking it for themselves. The other side would continue to send down essence to reinforce and maintain the origins of beings that slowly lost their minds and rationality from being broken and rebuilt so many times

Then came the reason that I was wondering about all this time. If a dungeon was cleared rapidly enough, the in flow of essence from the invading force couldn ’t keep up with how much essence was being absorbed, and the connection line would be broken, with the beings inside dying completely

This, was the destruction of the monolith that I had caused.

I looked up to the rotating prism when it got to this point and asked.

”Then, the [Plane Crystal] that I received once the monolith imploded is… ”

[It is a direct line of connection that we can use to ascertain the coordinates of their world and send our own forces down.]

…

I was speechless for the first time in a while. I thought about what this implied and then asked something I couldn ’t bring myself to ask before

”How do I…fit in all of this ”

The System took a pause when we go to this point

[When I regained enough essence to become active again, I saw that the situation was not heading in the right direction and that I had to act once more. I felt a level of frustration as I had enough essence and power to even bend some natural laws, but I couldn ’t make use of it to plainly erase the invaders because much stronger universal laws are in place to prevent such direct intervention]

I felt my mind start pounding as I listen very closely to the next words

[So I calculated countless possibilities, and came to the one with the highest chance of success, while it also posed the greatest danger. But, this path would allow for a truly strong person to rise and protect the planet, so I attempted it.]

I listened with rapt attention while waiting for the voice to continue

[I created a backdoor from the planet ’s core and connected it to a single human that had the least restrictions, someone who wasn ’t yet even awakened. This channel would allow the possibility of things that are normally impossible.]

My thoughts were moving rapidly as I heard this…this was why I felt that I had infinite mana to cast whatever skills I wanted without restriction.

This was why my [Focus] was blank. All of that energy…it wasn ’t just coming from nowhere. This made me recall something I had read about in school years back, that energy couldn ’t be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form to another

It felt like lessons finally kicked in when I thought about my mana, and how the skill books and cores came to be. But, could the common laws I knew about even be applicable at this stage we were at now? As for just how much energy an entire planet contained…could the tremendous essence even be quantified?

My thoughts were interrupted as the System continued

[But…this came at a huge cost and introduced a vulnerability that was not there before. You are connected to the planetary core, and the planetary core is connected to you. If you ever faced destruction…the entire planet will follow.]

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